Entropia Universe

What works

Not able to start client.

What does not

Everything, obviously.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Installing (used copy of working install from windows partition)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Clicking to start the client calls up an error message with no text, which is very unhelpful. Nice one, MA. I first tried with the same wine setup that worked with pre-VU10 EU. No go. Then, I removed .wine and installed latest version (1.2RC2), and the then tried running clientloader between each successive step: * first try-- error about missing vcrun during startup * winetricks vcrun2005sp1 * client loader starts fine, gave error described above when trying to start client * winetricks wmp9 * no change in success winetricks d3dx10 * " " " " winetricks directx9 " " " " " It may be that not all the winetricks installations previously necessary are needed now, but as the client doesn't actually start or give a useful error message, it's hard to know. Back to garbage for EU. I only have an Nvidia card so there's a chance it works as it did for Axel with an ATI card.

For any brave souls who want to try it, there has been a success at logging in reported using a new installation of wine 1.0.1 and the directX 10 library, even on a system with an (older) nvidia card. The good news is obviously that getting into the game is possible under the right circumstances. The bad news is that it seems to require a set of conditions not yet fully understood. This is the process:

$> winetricks wmp9
$> winetricks vcrun2005sp1
$> wine /location/of/DirectX\ 10.exe

(The DX10 on WinXP library linked above)
$> wine /location/of/vcredist_x86.exe
(This security patch for 2005 SP1 VCRUN library.)

$> wine /location/of/entropia_universe_setup.exe

As for newer versions of Wine, this is the only one way to get EU to the point that the client will run. It still always freezes or crashes on login.

In (K)Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install wine

wine /media/cdrom0/entropia_universe_setup.exe

(Allow it to try to install the VC runtime files; it then fails trying to install DirectX and exits)

sh winetricks directx9

(Even though winetricks recommends it instead of directx9, d3dx9 does NOT work for me: it causes a problem with the VC runtimes)

 wine /media/cdrom0/entropia_universe_setup.exe

(Again allow it to install the VC runtime; it should finish the installation--note that if you have to try this whole process again, installing on top of the previous EU installation is very fast and simply resets it back to VU10.0.)

sh winetricks wmp9

wine ClientLoader.exe

(Try to log in, loader patches to latest version. Try to log in again and the client comes up with the login prompt. Sound seems to work, too, but in the process of logging in, it dies)

 For some reason, EU is extremely susceptible to corruption of the VCRUN settings, meaning if you deviate from this order, you will probably get an error when you try to run the client loader. I suspect this is due to EU requiring the version of VCRUN2005SP1 with the security update. If anyone has greater success than a login screen, please report.